Listed below are some of the Wisconsin Genealogy Resources on the web that I found helpful while researching my family history:

It seems that I am able to find more family history stuff as I am casually surfing web and when I am not really looking for one thing in particular. Take for example this evening as sat down to do an idle search of web of for references regarding the post-Civil War period of 1865 to 1877 that is most commonly known as the "Reconstruction". I wanted to get a feel for what sort resources on that topic were available. After poking around for a while I somehow wound up at the US Gen Web Georgia Archives.

Here there were links regarding American wars from the Revolution down to WWII and Korea. Knowing that my ggg-grandfather David Dobbs was for many years associated with the Georgia state militia from the War of 1812 until the eve of the Civil War when he was a trustee of the Georgia Military Institute, I first followed the link "War of 1812" link. This took me to a page that listed rosters for American Revolution and War of 1812 units. I already knew that David Dobbs was a 3rd Lieutenant in Booth's 4^th Regiment of the Georgia Militia so when I found that unit listed I followed the link here I found some things that I did not know: 1) that the unit was mustered at Fort Hawkins in November of 1814 and that "Booth's" refers to Colonel David A. Booth. It was the place intrigued me the most and so went off in search of Fort Hawkins.

Yahoo! recently published a list of the top twenty most misspelled words caught by their search queries and while most of the words / names / phrases in the list are American Idol contenders number seven (7) in the list was "Geneology" as opposed to the correct spelling of "Genealogy".

I find this interesting for two reasons 1) "Genealogy" is commonly misspelled as "Geneology", but more important to me is the idea that so many people find it of interest enough that it ranks above "Volkswagon", "Britney Spears", and "Avril Lavigne".

Oops, I did it again… It's "Volkswagen", not "Volkswagon".

See the list at Yahoo!.

This past Sunday, there was an article in the New York Daily News that told of the Rev. Al Sharpton having been briefed last week by a team of professional genealogists from Ancestry.com who had discovered that Sharpton's great-grandfather Coleman Sharpton was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather.

The front cover of the Daily News read "Shock Of My Life!"

It was "shocking", Sharpton said, to learn he was descended from a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, once a symbol of segregation. (see "Slavery links families" NY Daily News Feb 25, 2007)